Tag Archive 'zucchini'

We’ve just added a brand new section to our site to help you prepare zucchini for your baby. That won’t mean much to you if you’re in Europe – or some other parts of the world – because you’ll know zucchini as courgettes, Italian squash or vegetable marrow! The names may be different, but the vegetable is [...]

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Mmm… shepherd’s pie, the ideal warming winter food! We come across lots of shepherd’s pie recipes that list ground/minced beef as an ingredient… yet the word ‘shepherd’ is a clear indication that there should be some lamb in there somewhere! The ‘beefy’ version is actually cottage pie – and, in our opinion, is not as [...]

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Following our recent posts about including zucchini (courgettes) in your baby food recipes, we received an interesting question from Linda in Texas yesterday. She wanted to know if she can give her baby raw zucchini as a finger food. Not many people have considered eating zucchini raw, but it’s actually quite delicious grated or served in [...]

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We wrote a couple of weeks ago about how to prepare zucchini - or courgettes – as a finger food for baby. Well, that post (which you can read here) inspired one of our readers – Jen from Northern Ireland – to contact us with her recipe for a nutritious zucchini risotto. Jen told us that her [...]

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Zucchini (known as courgettes in some parts of the world) are a type of summer squash related to both cucumber and melon. The whole vegetable – skin, seeds and all – is entirely edible and packed with nutrients including vitamin C, manganese, folates and protein. We included pureed zucchini in our homemade baby food recipes [...]

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Todays’ recipe for cheesy vegetable muffins is very quick and easy to put together! It was sent to us by Cheryl from the UK who gives these muffins to her 11 month old son as a finger food – and she finds them a great way to get even more veggies into his diet! Here’s [...]

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As you may have guessed from the incredibly witty (!) title, today’s recipe is for a VERY yummy sweet potato soup! This recipe is a family favourite, because the perfect combination of herbs and spices give this soup a really unique flavour that we all enjoy. Our babies enjoyed this soup from as early as [...]

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